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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes
American
-
Politician
October 13, 1989
Women like me aren't supposed to run for office.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Women
Me
Like
Office
Run
Supposed
I wake up every day, and I'm a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Day
Girl
Wake Up
Every Day
Bronx
Every Single Day
Puerto
Puerto Rican
Rican
Single
Single Day
Wake
Every
Up
I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Your
Destiny
Born
Place
Code
Determines
Where
Zip
I Was Born
For me, democratic socialism is about - really, the value for me is that I believe that in a modern, moral, and wealthy society, no person in America should be too poor to live.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Me
Believe
Society
Value
America
Democratic
Live
Modern
Moral
Person
Poor
Really
Should
Socialism
Too
Wealthy
I Believe
I Believe That
About
People try to identify who is the most likely person to turn out, and what we did is that we changed who turns out. And that changes the whole electorate.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
People
Who
Person
Try
Changed
Changes
Did
Electorate
Identify
Likely
Turn
Turns
Whole
Most
Out
Change takes courage.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Change
Courage
Takes
We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
People
Care
Enough
Know
Brothers
Brothers And Sisters
Midwest
Reject
Sisters
Stereotype
About
What I see is that the Democratic Party takes working class communities for granted, they take people of color for granted, and they just assume that we're going to turn out no matter how bland or half-stepping these proposals are.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
People
Matter
See
Just
Assume
Bland
Class
Color
Communities
Democratic
Democratic Party
Going
Granted
Party
Proposals
Take
Takes
Turn
Working
I See
How
Out
Working-Class
I'm used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Me
People
Community
Knowing
Kind
Used
I felt like the only way to effectively run for office is if you had access to a lot of wealth, high social influence, a lot of dynastic power, and I knew that I didn't have any of those things.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
You
Power
Way
Influence
Access
Any
Effectively
Felt
Had
High
Knew
Lot
Office
Run
Social
Those
Wealth
Like
Only
Things
Not all Democrats are the same.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Same
Democrats
Congress is too old. They don't have a stake in the game.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Game
Old
Congress
Too
Stake
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There is no such thing as talking about class without there being implications of the racial history of the United States. You just can't do it.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
History
You
Being
Just
Class
Implications
Racial
States
Talking
Thing
United
United States
Without
About
I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education - that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
It's really scary or it's easy to generate fear around an idea or around an -ism when you don't provide any substance to it.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
You
Fear
Easy
Scary
Any
Around
Generate
Idea
Provide
Really
Substance
There's this false notion that you have to separate and choose between issues of class and issues of race. What people do when they say that you need to separate class from race is that they are really just saying that people of color should come second.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
You
People
Saying
They Say
Between
Choose
Class
Color
Come
False
Issues
Need
Notion
Race
Really
Say
Second
Separate
Should
Just
Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers - that is what should be happening in America.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Getting
America
Truck
Democrats
Drivers
Happening
Sanitation
Should
The Republicans galvanize their base by inciting a lot of fear; they operate on a lot of mythmaking. So we have to have something compelling. We shouldn't be afraid to be bold.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Fear
Bold
Something
Afraid
Base
Compelling
Lot
Operate
Republicans
Mentors of mine were under a big pressure to minimize their femininity to make it. I'm not going to do that. That takes away my power. I'm not going to compromise who I am.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Power
I Am
Pressure
Compromise
Am
Away
Big
Femininity
Going
Mentors
Mine
Minimize
Takes
Were
Make
Who
We have a political culture of intimidation, of favoring, of patronage, and of fear, and that is no way for a community to be governed.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Fear
Community
Culture
Political
Governed
Intimidation
Patronage
Way
The only time we create any kind of substantive change is when we reach out to a disaffected electorate and inspire and motivate them to vote.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Change
Time
Only
Inspire
Any
Create
Electorate
Kind
Motivate
Only Time
Reach
Substantive
Vote
Out
Them
The biggest hurdle that our communities have is cynicism - saying it's a done deal, who cares; there's no point to voting. If we can get somebody to care, it's a huge victory for the movement and the causes we're trying to advance.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Victory
Care
Who
Done
Advance
Biggest
Cares
Causes
Communities
Cynicism
Deal
Huge
Hurdle
Movement
No Point
Point
Saying
Somebody
Trying
Voting
Who Cares
Get
Our
We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Justice
Fighting
Economic
Movement
Racial
Social
States
United
United States
I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family - mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Mother
Family
Dad
Born
Bronx
Powerful
Puerto
Puerto Rico
Rico
South
South Bronx
Wealthy
I can't name a single issue with roots in race that doesn't have economic implications, and I cannot think of a single economic issue that doesn't have racial implications. The idea that we have to separate them out and choose one is a con.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Roots
Think
Name
Race
Cannot
Choose
Con
Economic
Idea
Implications
Issue
Racial
Separate
Single
Out
Them
We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Age
Diversity
Congress
Too
Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Think
Somewhere
Than
Rather
Bronx
Invest
Run
Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
World
Will
Capitalism
Always
Exist
Existed
I'm an educator. I'm an organizer.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Educator
Organizer
Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Nothing
Champion
Want
Moral
American
Clarity
Clear
Radical
Working-Class
About
We absolutely do need to make sure that our borders are secure. But what we need to realize and remember is that ICE was established in 2003 right at the same time as the Patriot Act, the AUMF, the Iraq War - and we look back at a lot of that time and legislation as a mistake now. And I think that ICE is right there as a part of it.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
What we need to do is lay out a plan and a vision that people can believe in. And getting into Twitter fights with the president is not exactly where we're going to find progress as a nation.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
People
Believe
Vision
Getting
Exactly
Fights
Find
Going
Lay
Nation
Need
Plan
President
Progress
Twitter
Where
Out
It's time we acknowledge that not all Democrats are the same. That a Democrat who takes corporate money, profits off foreclosure, doesn't live here, doesn't send his kids to our schools, doesn't drink our water or breathe our air cannot possibly represent us.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Time
Money
Water
Who
Acknowledge
Air
Breathe
Cannot
Corporate
Democrat
Democrats
Drink
Here
Kids
Live
Off
Possibly
Profits
Represent
Same
Schools
Send
Takes
His
Our
Us
I don't think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Die
Think
Live
Poor
America
Any
Person
Should
Too
Because
I don't think most of Congress understands how economics works.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Think
Economics
Most
Congress
Understands
Works
How
There has almost never been a period of substantial economic growth in the United States without significant investment. And no investment pays off within the same cycle. No investment pays off within the same year - especially a governmental investment. Even businesses don't work that way.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Work
Growth
Never
Way
Almost
Businesses
Cycle
Economic
Economic Growth
Even
Investment
Off
Pays
Period
Same
Significant
States
Substantial
United
United States
Within
Without
Year
Been
The idea that we're going to austerity ourselves into prosperity is so mistaken, and honestly, I feel like one of the big problems we have is that, because Democrats don't have a deep understanding of or degrees in economics, they allow Wall Street folks to roll in the door and think that they're giving them an education.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
I started my campaign out of a Trader Joe's bag with a bunch of printed palm cards and an idea.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Cards
Bag
Palm
Out
Bunch
Campaign
Idea
Joe
Printed
Started
Trader
Public schools in the late '80s and early '90s were a total mess... we felt that if I was going to have a good educational option in my life, I would have to go to a public school district that actually served its children.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Life
Good
My Life
Children
Actually
District
Early
Educational
Felt
Go
Going
Late
Mess
Option
Public
Public School
Public Schools
School
Schools
Served
Total
Were
Would
At Standing Rock, we experienced, first-hand, people coming together in their communities and trying to use the levers of representative democracy to try and say, 'We don't want this in our community; we don't want this in our backyard,' and corporations using their monetary influence to completely erode that process.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
People
Democracy
Together
Community
Backyard
Coming
Communities
Corporations
Experienced
First-Hand
Influence
Monetary
Our Community
Process
Representative
Rock
Say
Standing
Try
Trying
Use
Using
Our
Want
It was really my experience at Standing Rock that was pretty pivotal for me because I saw how corporations were literally militarizing themselves against American citizens so that they could kind of maximize their profit margins on fossil fuels.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Me
Experience
Rock
American
Against
American Citizens
Citizens
Corporations
Could
Fossil
Fossil Fuels
Fuels
Kind
Literally
Margins
Maximize
Pivotal
Pretty
Profit
Really
Saw
Standing
Themselves
Were
Because
How
Campaigns are so much more expensive than people think they are. Just to keep the lights on is several thousand dollars a month.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
People
Think
More
Lights
Campaigns
Dollars
Expensive
Keep
Month
Much
Several
Thousand
Just
Than
Democrats are a big-tent party. You know, I'm not trying to impose an ideology on all, you know, several hundred members of Congress.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
You
Know
Trying
Congress
Democrats
Hundred
Ideology
Impose
Members
Party
Several
I'm very hands-on about social media. That's my voice.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Social Media
Voice
Media
About
Hands-On
Social
Very
I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
People
Speak
Want
Possible
Directly
Much
I don't like having people do little things for me.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Me
People
Little Things
Like
Having
Little
Things
I just hope that more people will ignore the fatalism of the argument that we are beyond repair. We are not beyond repair. We are never beyond repair.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Hope
People
Never
Will
Argument
Beyond
Fatalism
Ignore
More People
Repair
Just
More
I'm not running from the left; I'm running from the bottom. I'm running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
New
Fierce
Left
Bottom
Advocacy
New Yorkers
Running
Working-Class
I know what it's like to access the privilege of a ZIP Code but also be born in one that could have destined me to something else.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Me
Know
Like
Born
Access
Also
Code
Could
Destined
Else
Privilege
Something
Something Else
Zip
It's disingenuous to... pretend the sources of our money don't impact the policy we write - you just can't serve two masters.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
You
Money
Impact
Just
Disingenuous
Masters
Policy
Pretend
Serve
Sources
Two
Write
Our
Prev
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